Cover image for This is biology : the science of the living world
Title:
This is biology : the science of the living world
Author:
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

©1997
Physical Description:
xix, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997.
Language:
English
Contents:
What is the meaning of "life? -- What is science? -- How does science explain the natural world? -- How does biology explain the living world? -- Does science advance? -- How are the life sciences structured? -- "What" questions: the study of biodiversity -- "How" questions: the making of a new individual -- "Why" questions: the evolution of organisms -- What questions does ecology ask -- Where do humans fit into evolution? -- Can evolution account for ethics?
Subject Term:
ISBN:
9780674884694
Format :
Book